plasmator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plasmātor.

Noun

plasmator (plural plasmators)

1. (obsolete) One who forms or fashions.
   • 1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, Gargantua and Pantagruel:

     the sovereign plasmator, God Almighty

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plasmator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From plasmō (“form, mould, fashion”) +‎ -tor, from plasma (“something formed; image, figure”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plasˈmaː.tor/, [pɫ̪äs̠ˈmäːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plasˈma.tor/, [pläzˈmäːt̪or]

Noun

plasmātor m (genitive plasmātōris); third declension

1. a former, fashioner, creator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plasmātor	plasmātōrēs
Genitive	plasmātōris	plasmātōrum
Dative	plasmātōrī	plasmātōribus
Accusative	plasmātōrem	plasmātōrēs
Ablative	plasmātōre	plasmātōribus
Vocative	plasmātor	plasmātōrēs

Related terms

• plasma
• plasmātiō
• plasmō

Descendants

• French: plasmateur
• Italian: plasmatore
• Spanish: plasmador

References

• “plasmator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plasmator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.